Microservices, Monitoring, Infrastructure as Code & Test Automation

Something that came to my attention recently is that Amazon Cloud Solutions i.e. EC2 Instances etc cannot supply a customer with a UK registered IP address which they can assign to either an Elastic IP or and Elastic Load Balancer IP.

This creates problems for companies seeking high google rankings

Shard-Query is an open source tool kit which helps improve the performance of queries against a MySQL database by distributing the work over multiple machines and/or multiple cores.
Visit MySQL Performance Blog - Shard-Query

Recently I came across a very neat tool for monitoring bandwidth usage on CentOS

It takes about 5 minutes to install / configure with yum repos.

Have a read through "Monitoring bandwidth usage with vnStat under CentOS 5 Linux"

This is an example custom XCF file for Four Js GAS.

In this example I've set custom environment variables, set the path for the working application directory, specified a specific module and passed in a parameter.

One handy use of an XCF file like this is that I can setup several for example say I have 5 weighbridges and I run a 4Js application to capture the weight etc of each truck as it passes over the weighbridge

I can setup an XCF for each weighbridge passing in the parameter 1, 2, 3, to the same program weighbridge.42r


<APPLICATION Parent="defaultgdc"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.4js.com/ns/gas/2.20/cfextwa.xsd">
  <EXECUTION AllowUrlParameters="TRUE">
        <ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE Id="DBDATE">DMY4/</ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE>
        <ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE Id="GREDIR">f:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\FOURJS\GRE\</ENVIRONMENT_VAR…

In your fglprofile in $FGLDIR/etc to access remote MySQL databases


dbi.default.driver = "dbmmys51x.dll"
dbi.database.rdb.source = "remote_db@remote_host:3306"
dbi.database.rdb.driver = "dbmmys51x"
dbi.database.rdb.username = "remoteuser"
dbi.database.rdb.password = "remotepassword"

Remote host can be valid hostname or else and IP address e.g. 192.60.30.11

OpenLayers is a JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers.
Its 100% javascript based and is a possible solution for developing GIS based solutions on the web.
http:/ /openlayers.org/

$tmptime = time() - (3600*2);
$ordertime=date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$tmptime);
$request->setCreatedAfter(new DateTime($ordertime, new DateTimeZone('UTC')));